Import of host δ-aminolevulinate dehydratase into the malarial parasite: Identification of a new drug target

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 898-903

  Bonday, Z Q ^a   Dhanasekaran, S ^a   Rangarajan, P N ^a   Padmanaban, G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORPHOBILINOGEN SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; HEME SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CELL MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; HEME; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PORPHOBILINOGEN SYNTHASE;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0033834719     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/78659     Document Type: Article

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